Dara Savinova
A former member of the International Opera Studio at Zürich Opera and of the Salzburger Festspiele’s Young Artist Project, Estonian mezzo-soprano Dara Savinova has rapidly raised her international profile in recent seasons.
In the 2023/2024 season she will sing Juno in Handel’s in Semele for International Händel-Festspiele Göttingen at the Olympia Theatre Maria Callas in Athens.
The 2021/22 season included St. Matthew Passion concerts in France with Leonardo García Alarcón, Bach’s B Minor Mass with the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon, Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt and at the Staatstheater Hannover, Der Komponist in Ariadne auf Naxos at the Landestheater Detmold, and Elisa in the Bononcini’s opera Astarto at the Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik.
Other recent highlights include Ozias in Vivaldi's Juditha Triumphans at the Théâtre du Champs-Elysées, Angelina in La Cenerentola at the Royal Swedish Opera.
In previous seasons she performed the role of Eustazio in Rinaldo and Dorabella in Così fan tutte at the Festival della valle d'Itria under the baton of Fabio Luisi, Goffredo in Rinaldo in both Moscow and Vienna with Jean Christophe Spinosi’s Ensemble Matheus, Amenofi in Mosè in Egitto at the Bregenzer Festspiele, Zweiter Dame in Die Zauberflöte at the Theater Basel, Rosina in Il barbiere di Siviglia at the Bashmet Festival in Sochi, and as L’enfant in Ravel's L'enfant et les sortilèges at Opernhaus Zürich.
A part-time member of the ensemble of Theater Detmold through the 2018/19 season, she sang roles such as Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Nancy in Flotow's Martha, Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel and Siebel in Gounod's Faust.
The title role of Carmen is one of her signature roles since Jean-Christophe Spinosi invited her for her debut on a tour in France, Spain and Russia. Other roles include Pierotto in Linda di Chamounix and the roles of Ino and Juno in Semele at the Beaune Baroque Opera Festival.
In May 2021, she won the first prize in at the José Carreras Grand Prix of the Elena Obraztsova Foundation in Moscow. In 2019 she was a finalist and got the Special Prize at the International Singing Competition (CLIP) in Portofino, Italy.
Dara Savinova is a graduate of the Salzburg Mozarteum and speaks Estonian, Russian, English, German, Italian, French and Swedish. She is based in Tallinn and in Stockholm.